The Night Elves are on the lookout, and the Centaur army is ready to move.

The first wave to attack was the thousands of 'Centaur Precursors', low-level creeps at levels 12-14 and the most common type of low-level combat unit in the Centaur tribe.

There was no decent armor, and the weapons were just rudimentary battle axes, and a group of thirty and fifty swarmed, swarming in a haphazard manner, charging at Astrana from all sides.

It would be more accurate to see death than charge, and Astrana was surrounded on two sides by the river, and on the other two sides was a raised plateau overgrown with towering trees and densely populated with archers.

Although it does not have walls in the strict sense of the word, its defense is not weaker than that of ordinary castles.

This blind charge has little chance of winning.

What awaited them was a dense rain of arrows, and the number of archers in the Night Elf Sentinel Force was more than seventy percent, and the arrows fired were as fierce as a storm in the true sense.

These lackluster armor and thin health Centaur Forerunners were swept away almost instantly, leaving corpses strewn with sharp arrows all over the place.

But the Shenwu Emperor didn't care about this casualty, this kind of low-level wild monster was originally used as cannon fodder, and it was all brushed by the system for free, no matter how much he died, he didn't feel distressed, and if he died, he could free up some people to breed more advanced units, and he would not die in vain.

A trumpet sounded, and thousands more centaur precursors rushed out of position, followed by thousands more centaur hunters, shooting a sparse rain of arrows at the Night Elves on the other side of the riverbank.

This attack has little effect, and the level of the Centaur Hunter is also not high, only level 15-16, which is limited in strength and strength compared to cannon fodder.

Sure enough, the attacking forces were once again fiercely counterattacked, and the condescending Night Elf archers, who had the advantage of range, easily shot the centaur hunters on the bank of the river.

In just ten minutes, thousands of centaur corpses had been left around the city, and finally, the horn of retreat sounded, and the remnants of the centaur army retreated as if they had been amnestied.

The Night Elves in the city burst into cheers.

The cute rabbit with two ponytails (Sentinel General): "Haha, these savage brutes are really vulnerable. ”

Tyrande shook his head, his expression solemn, "No, it's not that simple, they're testing our troop deployment. ”

Sure enough—

"Your Majesty, the enemy's troop deployment has been tentatively figured out." Next to the map, several centaur khans quickly sorted out the layout of the night elves, and small flags representing corpses were planted all over the map, and it was obvious that there were obviously fewer corpses at the entrances to the city on the north and south sides.

"The fire on the east and west sides of Astrana is the most intense, and the north side cannot spread out a large number of troops due to the terrain, but in the open area near the mouth of the river in the south, the enemy's strength does not seem to be secret, the density of arrows is significantly lower, and many centaur hunters have fled back, this may be a breakthrough for us, but it may be ......"

"Maybe it's a trap, right?" Another centaur Khan said.

The third centaur khan, an assistant from the personnel department, also agreed with this speculation, "That's right, if the other party really prepared a pocket array as Lin Meng said, it must be here." ”

Emperor Shenwu smiled, "Don't guess, it's a trap, but it doesn't matter, now that we have the black dragon to help us fight, even if there is a trap, we are not afraid, since the other party has left a gap for us, then we will plan it."

Concentrate elite troops to attack this gap, and as long as this gap is opened, my army can pour in and completely destroy the city with absolute numerical superiority.

As long as the Night Elves' army in Astrana is completely wiped out, they will not be able to gather a second force of this size in a short period of time, and we can get at least half a month of strength, and in half a month, we may be able to take the World Tree.

At the very least, they can take down Felwood Forest. ”

Emperor Shenwu already had some experience with this war.

At this point, a decision was made immediately.

"Let all the tribes send their main army, archers, catapults, to launch a feint around to attract the attention of the enemy, the offensive must be fierce, and then when I blow the second horn, the Iron Horse clan will launch a strong attack from the front to break the gap.

Go, Mother Earth bless you! ”

"For the Empire!"

"For the Empire!"

Receiving the order, several centaur khans immediately went to their respective clans to prepare to direct the attack.

Soon, as soon as the first trumpet sounded, the tribes sent their troops at the same time.

More than 100,000 centaur archers (level 22 creeps), centaur wind shooters (level 35 creeps), and centaur wind hunters (level 38 creeps) galloped towards the borders of Astranna, shooting arrows as fast as they could, like mounted archers.

The Night Elves also immediately returned the color, and the rain of arrows on both sides came and went, covering the sky, almost obscuring the sunlight, and the density of the arrow rain was so great that they often collided in mid-air.

Night elves and centaurs are both good at shooting races, but centaurs are riding shots, night elves are foot shooting, the advantage of riding archery is that you can shoot while dodging, and foot shooting has a longer range and stronger power, at first glance it seems to be half a pound and eight taels, but such a large-scale battle, it is almost impossible to dodge, the rain of arrows in the sky has to be shot wherever it goes, this way of standing and fighting, obviously the night elves have more advantages.

However, centaurs also have their own Dafa, once the blood volume of too many arrows falls below half during the run, the centaur will immediately run backwards and retreat, quickly out of the battle area, in each camp, there are already a large number of wild boar people and witch doctors all over the ground to insert healing totems to restore blood to the wounded.

A group of centaur archers rushed up and shot around the gallop horse, and when they had shot the remaining blood, they immediately pulled back to return to blood, and when they were full of blood, they rushed up again to shoot arrows.

Of course, the Night Elves also have their own healing methods, Elune's priests can use various magic techniques to heal, and the druids can directly release the rain of tranquility.

The fighting between the two sides was fierce, but there were not many casualties.

Immediately afterward, the centaurs pushed the catapults upward, and the huge flaming stones smashed wildly towards the city, which made the Night Elves feel a great deal of pressure.

The Night Elves immediately returned the color with a slinger, and the huge flying blades projected easily shredded the body of the centaur and destroyed the catapult.

The two sides come and go, and they don't give in to each other, and there are more and more Night Elves on the outer defense line of the city.

Seeing that there were more and more Night Elves around, and the enemies had been mobilized in large numbers, the second horn finally sounded.

The Iron Horse Clan is one of the core clans of the Centaur Empire, and at this time sent more than 3,000 'Centaur Armored Marauders (Level 44 Wild Monsters)', lined up in a neat formation, and launched a charge in the direction of the estuary, followed by a large number of centaur wind marksmen, and the centaur witch was in charge of cover.

The sound of horses' hooves was deafening, the earth trembled, and these centaur raiders were each heavily armoured and armed with heavy battle axes, and thousands of centaurs charged together, similar in might to the charge of a human heavy knight.

Seeing that the enemy finally sent out elite troops, Tyrande breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his plan had succeeded, and the enemy had indeed been fooled.

These iron-clad Armored Marauders are enhanced versions of the Centaur Marauders, up to level 44 high-level creeps with three powerful abilities: Iron Defense, Savage Charge, and Trample Attack.

In the face of a sparse rain of arrows, the armored marauders with ironclad defense specialties rushed directly into it without fear.

A single charge crushed the Night Elf forces at the mouth of the river, and they rushed straight into the city without stopping, and more centaur raiders poured in, as if they were about to take advantage of the breach to make a breakthrough.

However, when the force rushed into the estuary, they found that a sparse and strange forest awaited them.

The trees of this forest are exceptionally thick, and although there are not many of them, they clearly form a line of defense, and behind this thin line of defense are thousands of Night Elf archers waiting for them.

Although it felt weird, the momentum of the charge did not stop in the slightest, and the forest needed a certain density to block the charge of the centaurs.

Kill! The Overseer roared and charged without hesitation.

But suddenly, the giant trees moved, they pulled out their roots from the ground, they grew limbs, and their huge bodies moved like human shapes, moving slowly but surely with their steps, forming a neat line, and beginning to surround and close from all sides.

The Ancient Tree of War, a war weapon of up to level 60, has more than 10,000 HP, has the 'Crushing Strike' skill, and has a certain probability of killing medium-sized units with less than 1000 HP in one hit.

The only drawback is the slow speed, but at this point in a row, it is simply a moving city wall.

The centaur overseer charged, but was stopped by an ancient war tree.

Savage Charge! Rumble! The blow slammed into the ancient tree of war, and the tree trembled, but instead of retreating in the slightest, the centaur overseers were shaken back again and again.

Even the boss has to talk about human rights, and in the face of the 'weapon of war', it is impossible for the charge to be effective.

This centaur overseer is not bad, those centaur armored raiders are not even bosses, and they can't rush over at all when they are mounted on a big tree and turned on their backs.

The Night Elves' archers took the opportunity to go crazy from behind.

The centaurs tried to bypass the War Tree again, but the small space between the War Trees simply did not allow them to pass in large numbers, and they were often slapped into pulp by the War Tree as soon as they got close.

Occasionally, a few fish that slipped through the net rushed to the blockage of the big tree, and they would immediately encounter the fire of a large number of archers, and the hedgehog would shoot at range.

Seeing that there were more and more centaur troops blocked in the estuary plain, the rain of arrows from the night elves all shot towards this side, which was completely like a pit kill.

Murphy looked at it and knew it was time to make a move.

He wasn't going to be lazy and clumsy, and with the four guardian dragons in the battle, he didn't have any room to spare.

Although he wants to prevent the Shenwu Emperor from unifying Kalimdo, he has no enmity with the Shenwu Emperor, and he can't make too much trouble with the other party, so he still has to make a move.

Roar! With a dragon roar from Mo Fei, the Black Dragon Legion in the sky immediately moved.

And Tyrande was immediately shocked.

"Damn it, those black dragons! The Horned Eagle Knights attack, don't let those black dragons disrupt our operations. ”

Hundreds of Horned Eagle Knights and thousands of armed Horned Eagle Beasts immediately flew out of their lair and attacked the black dragon.

The Horned Eagle Beasts are not extraordinary creatures, but their air combat ability is not weaker than that of ordinary black young dragons, although they have no dragon breath, their sword-like sharp pecks are extremely deadly weapons, and their razor-like claws can easily tear apart the young dragon's ungrown skin.

Even for those adult dragons, these horned eagles have a certain threat, the scale armor of adult dragons is too hard, and the amount of blood is too thick, and it is difficult for a horned eagle to even grab and peck, and it is difficult to produce much output.

But once the hordes come up to besiege them, even adult dragons will not be able to parry.

Seeing that the black dragon was entangled by the horned eagle beast, Mo Fei hurriedly ordered.

Nesario (King of the Black Dragon): "Nefarian, Agnes, use dragon magic to knock these things down." ”

Nefarian (Black Dragon Prince): "Yes, father. ”

Agnes (Black Dragon Lord): "Obey Lord Nesario!" ”

Dragon Magic - Cloud Incineration!

Dragon Magic - Thunderstorm!

In the sky, the fire clouds were filled, the thunder was raging, and the powerful dragon magic immediately caused those horned eagle beasts to be blasted down in pieces.

Suddenly, the chaotic sky blasted out of a huge hole.

Nesario (King of the Black Dragon): "Morpheus, lead the attack and destroy those ancient trees of war." ”

Morpheus (Elder Black Dragon): "Do your bidding, Lord Nesario." ”

Morpheus didn't dare to refuse, and with a roar, dozens of young black dragons immediately swooped down with him from the open gap.

"Quick, stop those black dragons!"

The Night Elves on the ground fired arrows into the air, but the Black Dragon's strong defense allowed them to resist the rain of arrows and attack on the ground.

Ancient Dragon Flame!

Shadow Blaze!

Black Dragon Flame!

Hula, dragon flames swept across the battlefield, spitting wildly at the ancient war trees below.

When it comes to Spitfire, Morpheus is definitely a professional.

Each breath of dragon breath can turn an ancient tree of war into a giant torch.

These seemingly indestructible ancient war trees, with low flame resistance, are terrifying, and move slowly, and the damage to the dragon's breath is completely taken as ordered, burning into huge torches one after another, and turning into ashes under the scorching of the dragon flame.

It worked! The centaur who had been shot badly before let out a burst of cheers and rushed towards the Night Elves behind the Ancient War Tree with all their might.

The Centaurs' axes cut through the limbs of the Night Elves, and the iron hooves trampled on the bodies of the Night Elves, and these Elven archers were completely unable to withstand the frontal impact of the armored Centaurs, some were trampled underfoot, some were knocked away, and some were slashed by sharp axes, and the bloody killing made these centaurs completely fall into a frenzy.

Tyrande looked at it with anger in his eyes.

"Let the sisters retreat, Chief Woodthroat, and take your bear warriors aboard!"

Thousands of bears went into battle under the leadership of the Woodthroat Chieftain.

Finally stopped the centaur's charge.

The two sides began a hand-to-hand battle in this narrow area of less than 500 meters.

The bear monster is the standard 'monster infantry', and is best at this kind of close-quarters combat, and the battle is stalemate for a while.

But Emperor Shenwu immediately sent new reinforcements.

(End of chapter)